This is the way these words were spelled in earlier American English, and, I think, they may still be spelled this way in British English. We are not allowed to change what was in the book. Since this occurs numerous times throughout the book, they should be left as is. I also wouldn't consider it bad grammar, rather a representation of either the time or place that the book was written in.
Melissa Smith On 11/30/2010 8:08 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
I'm working on a book which has the words, "travellers" and "travelling" spelled as I showed them here but Open Office Writer points them out as being miss-spelled and indicates the correct spelling is with a single 'l' in both cases. I'm rather a poor speller at times so am a bit unsure here. I'm assuming the spell check in OOo Writer is correct but if these words are consistently miss-spelled throughout the book, Should I fix them or should I leave them as being intended by the author? I would normally not change intentional bad grammar if that was the author's intent but what about words like these? I would tend towards correcting these in this case.What say you? To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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